Leach of a Robot

[merrick lozano]

66.88.76.4 & 66.88.76.13

Used up tons of bandwidth last month, requesting files from our server over half a dozen times per second.

Only posting cause that is abusive. Obviously we are banning it.

[edited by: volatilegx at 6:03 pm (utc) on Feb. 4, 2005]
[edit reason] moved IPs from title to body of post [/edit]

[pendanticist]

That's XO Communications [google.com]. Back in April '01 they partnered with Level 3 [google.com]. Pests, as testified in those threads.

[jdMorgan]

Let's be careful with the terminology, here. That is a user of XO communications and Level 3, both of which are volume bandwidth suppliers (backbone providers). They carry a good portion of all U.S. intenet traffic between them.

So, this is an unidentified robot connecting through those providers. In the absense of a user-agent name, all you can do is block that 'bot by it's IP address if you can determine that it's using a fixed IP.

Jim

[merrick lozano]

The IP's I posted were identifying theirselves as "Microsoft Internet Explorer".

There is only one news bot I am interested in that does not identify itself properly. So yes all I could do was ban the offending IP's.